LYSISTRATA UNBOUND

posted on July 12th, 2018 at 7:10 PM by Steven Stanley

Drama, dance, and Greek-style tragedy merge in Lysistrata Unbound, playwright Eduardo Machado and director-choreographer John Farmanesh-Bocca’s stunning reenvisioning of Aristophanes’ 2400-year-old tale of a woman who takes antiwar protests to a decidedly personal level.
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posted in Dance, Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, World Premiere, WOW!

jackbenny

posted on July 10th, 2018 at 8:01 PM by Steven Stanley

The singing, songwriting twins known professionally as jackbenny (and individually as Jack and Benny Lipson) have set up monthly residency at Silver Lake’s Lyric Hyperion Café, guaranteeing audiences two hours a month of original music, laughter, an occasional cover, and a guest artist (or two or three) to spice up the already savory mix.
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posted in Cabaret/Concert/Variety, Los Angeles, Theater Review, WOW!

YANKEE DOODLE DANDY

posted on July 9th, 2018 at 11:36 AM by Steven Stanley

A talented cast do their best to breathe life into Musical Theatre West’s Yankee Doodle Dandy, a well-intentioned but ill-conceived look back at the life of George M. Cohan, the father of 20th-century musical comedy.
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posted in Long Beach/San Pedro, Musical, Theater Review

BIG RIVER

posted on July 7th, 2018 at 7:09 PM by Steven Stanley

Actors Repertory Theatre Of Simi treats Simi Valley audiences to one of its best–and best-looking–productions ever, a terrifically performed revival of the 1005-performance Tony-winning Best Musical of 1985, Roger Miller and William Hauptman’s Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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posted in Musical, Theater Review, Ventura County, WOW!

CABARET

posted on July 6th, 2018 at 2:56 PM by Steven Stanley

Michael Matthews takes Cabaret, a director’s show if there ever was one, and transforms it into the summer’s most spectacular intimate musical, an almost perfect rendition of the 20th-century Broadway classic, a production blessed by superb performances, breathtaking choreography, and the most jaw-dropping design I may ever have seen at Celebration Theatre.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

100 APRILS

posted on July 3rd, 2018 at 5:13 PM by Steven Stanley

The victims and the perpetrators of the mass murder of a million-and-a-half Armenians haunt a dying septuagenarian circa 1982 in Leslie Ayvazian’s edifying, impressively performed, if problematic World Premiere drama 100 Aprils, the latest from Rogue Machine.
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posted in Drama, Hollywood/West Hollywood, Theater Review, World Premiere

THE BLADE OF JEALOUSY

posted on July 2nd, 2018 at 10:59 PM by Steven Stanley

The Blade Of Jealousy, Henry Ong’s contemporary updating of a 17th-century Spanish screwball farce, proves a misfire for the writer of the justly lauded Sweet Karma, a misdirected, overacted, and mostly laugh-free World Premiere now playing Sundays at Sherman Oaks’ Whitefire Theatre.
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posted in Comedy, San Fernando Valley, Theater Review, World Premiere

MARY POPPINS

posted on July 1st, 2018 at 6:06 PM by Steven Stanley

Santa Monica’s Morgan-Wixson Theatre delivers the family entertainment goods with a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Mary Poppins, once again proving that you don’t need Broadway-budget spectacle to get audiences cheering.
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posted in Musical, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

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